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Looking for something funny, light, and dripping with the best kind of satire? Have you spent countless hours in various slack chats, groups, and rooms? Well then pick this book up right now.
"Gerald, a mid-level employee of a New York–based public relations firm has been uploaded into the company’s internal Slack channels—at least his consciousness has. His colleagues assume it’s an elaborate gag to exploit the new work-from home policy, but now that Gerald’s productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from...wherever he says he is.
Faced with the looming abyss of a disembodied life online, Gerald enlists his co-worker Pradeep to help him escape, and to find out what happened to his body. But the longer Gerald stays in the void, the more alluring and absurd his reality becomes.
Meanwhile, Gerald’s colleagues have PR catastrophes of their own to handle in the real world. Their biggest client, a high-end dog food company, is in the midst of recalling a bad batch of food that’s allegedly poisoning Pomeranians nationwide. And their CEO suspects someone is sabotaging his office furniture. And if Gerald gets to work from home all the time, why can’t everyone? Is true love possible between two people, when one is just a line of text in an app? And what in the hell does the :dusty-stick: emoji mean?"
- from Storygraph
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Y'all. This book was an absolute delight. As someone who has done her fair share of slacking in a corporate marketing office, the humor and lingo were all absolutely spot on. This story was satirical and silly - with occasional dives off the existential deep end, only to circle back around to writing copy for tweets about dog food. Since the entire book is written as a series of slack messages, it was a quick and easy read in one afternoon sitting. I needed a break from some of my darker and more intense reads lately, and this was absolutely perfect.
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Prompts Completed:
2022 Monthly Keyword Challenge (July, "People")
2022 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge (A Book Read in One Sitting)
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Content Warnings: Confinement, Animal Death
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